- Test engineering or QA automation background with real depth in pytest
- Genuinely adversarial mindset. The core of this job is breaking other people's assumptions. We will probe for this directly in interview.
- Comfortable running, monitoring, and triaging hundreds of containerized test runs
- Docker and CI systems
- Enough Linux and Kubernetes literacy to independently devise an alternate correct solution to a task you did not write
- Accurate, reproducible bug reporting under time pressure
- Agent-driven development .